From a sociological and demographic perspective, the Big Brother franchise allows the opportunity for analysis of how people react when forced into close confinement with people who lie outside their comfort zone, since they may hold different opinions or ideals from other contestants, or simply belong to a different group of people than a contestant normally interacts with.

# Masters who have the absolute right to play in the World Championship Candidates Tournament, or any player who replaces an absent contestant and earns at least a 50 percent score.

" ( asked when Marx felt sorry for a contestant who had not won anything ).

Groucho was the subject of an urban legend about a supposed response to a contestant who had nine children which supposedly brought down the house.

In the Hercules: The Legendary Journeys series, the contest is altered somewhat with Aphrodite and Athena entering but Artemis is the third goddess contestant instead of Hera ( offering the one who chooses her the chance to be renowned as a great warrior ).

* Jonbenet Ramsey ( 6 August 1990 – 25 December 1996 ) was a child beauty pageant contestant who was missing and found dead in her Boulder, Colorado home.

) The contestant who does this correctly and in the fastest time goes on to sit in the chair ( the " hot seat ") and play for the maximum possible prize ( often a million units of the local currency ).

For example, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, a contestant on Survivor: The Australian Outback, later became a host on morning talk show The View ; and Kristin Cavallari, who appeared on Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, has gone on to become a television host and actress.

* Spiral, a former Big Brother contestant, who wrote, performed and released a song about Finglas

His four children with Nancy are: Nancy Moore Thurmond ( 1971 – 1993 ), a beauty pageant contestant who was killed when a drunk driver hit her in Columbia, South Carolina ; James Strom Thurmond Jr. ( born 1972 ), who became U. S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina and is the current South Carolina 2nd Judicial Circuit Solicitor ; Juliana Gertrude ( Thurmond ) Whitmer ( born 1974 ), a married homemaker in Washington, DC ; and Paul Reynolds Thurmond ( born 1976 ), elected member of the Charleston County council.

Also, the rules of the Individual Immunity Necklace were changed so that a contestant who won the necklace in a challenge was able to give it to another contestant.

Other well-known Australian performers who also got their start as a contestant on the show include Asher Keddie, Alyce Platt, John Foreman, Maria Mercedes, Sylvie Paladino, Marty Fields and Michael Cormick.

A contestant who picked that panelist during the game won a bonus prize package if they correctly agreed or disagreed with the star.

Another episode included an April Fools ' prank played on Tom Bergeron in the show's fifth season, featuring E. E. Bell as an obnoxious contestant who kept pushing his overly emotional opponent until she broke down in tears, in addition to testing Bergeron's patience.

The contestant earned one point for each celebrity who wrote down the same answer ( or reasonably similar as determined by the judges ; for example, " rear end " matched " bottom " or a similar euphemism ) up to a maximum of six points for matching everyone.

In case of a tie score, the contestant who had not selected their own question in the previous round made the selection in the tie-breaker round.

Again, the only celebrities who played were those who did not match that contestant in previous rounds, and third round questions tended to be even more " definitive " in their responses.

The contestant who matched the most celebrities at the end of the game won the game and went on to play the Super Match, which consisted of the Audience Match and the Head-To-Head Match segments, for additional money.

A contestant who won money in the Audience Match then had the opportunity to win ten times that amount ( therefore, $ 5, 000, $ 2, 500 or $ 1, 000 ) by exactly matching another fill-in-the-blank response with one celebrity panelist.

Originally, the contestant chose the celebrity ; later, the celebrity who played this match was determined by the Star Wheel.

For the Head-To-Head Match the contestant picked a celebrity who revealed a hidden number ( 10, 20 or 30 ); that number was multiplied by the contestant's Audience Match winnings to determine the grand prize ($ 30, 000 being the top possible amount ).

After viewing a question, the contestant can quit with the money already won rather than attempting an answer.

If the contestant answers a question incorrectly, then all the money won so far is lost, except that the £ 1, 000 and £ 32, 000 prizes are guaranteed: if a player gets a question wrong above these levels, then the prize drops to the previous guaranteed prize.

If the match ended in a tie, one final question was played with the star of one contestant's choosing ; if the contestant can agree or disagree correctly, he / she won the match, otherwise the match went to the opponent.

If the chosen key started the car, the contestant won it and retired ; otherwise, the contestant returned the next day with that car eliminated should he or she return to the bonus game.

The contestant automatically won whatever car was left on the fifth day should they have gone that far without starting the car.

The top prize was said to be $ 100, 000, with the most won by a contestant in the round being $ 60, 000.

On the only episode when a contestant did not score in either Audience Match, she was given the opportunity to play a consolation question using the front-game format for $ 100 per match, and won the maximum $ 600.

The first panelist to give an answer selected by one of the contestants won the game for that contestant.

The question choices were then revealed to the celebrity, who made their own choice ; the contestant won money if both answers matched.

During the show's first season, any contestant who won over $ 25, 000 would retire undefeated, with the full amount won in his or her appearances.

The earnings cap was officially raised to $ 50, 000 or 5 appearances, whichever comes first, on November 1, 1984, and any amount past $ 75, 000 that was won could not be kept, though no contestant had reached past that amount since.

In the end, Larson earned a total of $ 110, 237 in cash and prizes, a record for the most money in cash and prizes won by a contestant in a single appearance on a daytime network game show.

West was the first contestant in the show's history to land on and win a car and won a total of $ 25, 742 in cash and prizes over the three episodes on which he appeared.

** In Survivor: Fiji Yau-Man Chan won a new 2008 Ford Super Duty but gave it to fellow contestant Dreamz as part of a strategic deal.

Usually both the male and female teams are top contestant in the highest national league ; having won it on several occasions.

Nehalem was location for the HGTV Dream Home contest in 2000 in which a contestant won a furnished home and an automobile.

Campbell was also first-runner-up in the 1924 pageant, and when the judge's scores revealed that she had almost won the crown a third time, the pageant created a new rule that a contestant may only win the title of Miss America once ( but still allowed a contestant to compete more than once.

A two-to-four-word phrase was given, with part of the phrase blank, and the contestant attempted to fill-in the most common response based on a prior studio audience survey.

The contestant with the most matches plays the " Super Match " round ( the MC reads the question and the responses ) for a chance to win money ( with an " Audience Match " and a " Head-to-Head Match " similar to the TV show ) of up to $ 5, 000.

His most notable role was as Daniel LaRusso in the Karate Kid series, and appeared as contestant on Dancing with the Stars.

The community is most famous for being the hometown of American Idol ( season 5 ) contestant Chris Daughtry while he was on the show ; he now lives in Oak Ridge, North Carolina.

Currently, the final placement of the finalists is determined by a ranked vote, where each judge ranks each of the final three / five candidates, with the contestant posting the lowest cumulative score ( thus often, but not necessarily always, the contestant with the most number one votes ) becoming the winner.

* Ben Bishop, winner of $ 115, 800 over five days of competition on Jeopardy !, the most of any contestant in 2008

In what many fans consider to be one of his most memorable appearances, on April 25, 2001 Hank competed against Stern producer Gary Dell ' Abate in a rock music trivia contest ( Dell ' Abate was scheduled to be a contestant on VH1's Rock & Roll Jeopardy !).

The winner is the contestant with the most points.

* Dr. Joyce Brothers – Only the second contestant to win the show's big prize ( after expertly thwarting numerous attempts to bump her from the show because Martin Revson was said to have disliked her and doubted her credibility as a boxing expert ), Brothers has enjoyed the most enduring fame and media success among anyone who rose to prominence by way of Question.

The most a contestant could win on the NBC version was $ 28, 800, which was accomplished only once by contestant Norma Brown.

The most significant difference to foreign versions of the television game was the use of contestant couples instead of individuals.

A fill-in-the-blank phrase was given, and it was up to the contestant to choose the most common response based on a studio audience survey.

Other comic aspects were the occasional contestant who failed to understand many of the questions they were asked, and the light-hearted personality of snooker players, most notably Dennis Taylor.

Each contestant won the amount of money the snooker player gained, and the contestant with the most money went on to play the final round.

After the third game, the contestant with the most points proceeded to the " Golden Medley " bonus round.

The first contestant to score three tunes ( two in the 1970s versions ) won 20 points and a prize ( most often a trip ), and for most of the 1970s and all of the 1980s syndicated series won the game or forced the tiebreaker.

Seven tunes were played, and the contestant who correctly named the most tunes won the round and 10 points.

The contestant with the most money left on his / her tree at the end of the round earned 10 points and a prize package, though it wasn't uncommon to see both trees stripped clean.